Show OIL NOTES colonel A G burritt local mining and oil geologist with offices in the dooly block has been joined by his brother john C S burritt of petroleum indiana A large flow of gas has been struck near gerber tehama county california by drillers drillars dr illers of the bruce oil company of los angeles the strike was made at a depth of feet and shows a pressure of sixty pounds it has commercial possibilities E edward dward C ryan oil geologist who has operated in mid continent and other fields recently jointed the illipah project thirty miles west of ely he is now working on a structure in the illipah oil field to be drilled by the reno trust company every indication is that the ogden labarge oil company paterson interests operating in the sec 18 27 labarge are about to come into oil this is the conclusion reached by those in position to know who inspected the well recently the drill was down in excess of 2600 feet at which depth operations were suspended for a brief time owing to caving conditions an additional string of pipe was placed to the bottom of the hole and drilling was resumed on the 3rd ard gomer reese head of the reese oil company at labarge made a trip to the snyder basin district northwest of big piney sunday where he reports the california company drilling its no 2 well the reese oil company is securing production from two wells at its property in labarge having marketed barrels in less than fifteen days in may the company expects to market 1200 barrels monthly from its two shallow wells when the pipe line is completed kemmerer gazette ath for the purpose of developing the marsh valley structure which is located about thirty miles south of pocatello near arimo akimo idaho the norton gas oil company has been incorporated with a capitalization of shares of a par value of 1 each the officers of the company are E C norton president J E norton vice president and fred brandt secretary and treasurer attorney W H witt witty y J L ketchum A W norton E C norton and J E norton comprise the board of directors all are pocatello men with the exception of mr ketchum who is a resident of salt lake officers of the price river petroleum company who are residents of eureka have employ med herman lock as driller to fill the position made vacant by the death of henry E walsh late last month H H link secretary of the company was at price to assist in getting the work under way the hole is now down a distance of about 2800 feet and the new man will doubtless be able to handle the price river companas Comp anys joh job in satisfactory manner mr lock was for several years connected with the utah southern companas Comp anys drilling operations in grand county and previous to that time held responsible positions with the doheny interests in california and mexico |